The String of Pearls

The original penny dreadful that gave the world Sweeney Todd, the demon barber of Fleet Street, and Mrs Lovett's terrible pies. A lurid Victorian shocker at the root of an enduring legend.

At a glance Down a shadowy stretch of Fleet Street stands a barber's shop where customers go in and… The String of Pearls is the sensational serial that first told the tale of Sweeney Todd… What it's about This is the founding text of the Sweeney Todd legend, a Victorian penny… Around their crimes the story weaves mystery, disappearances and the slow gathering of…

This is the founding text of the Sweeney Todd legend, a Victorian penny dreadful in which a murderous barber and his neighbour, the pie-maker Mrs Lovett, run a grisly enterprise in the heart of London.